High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valeria Golino (born 22 October 1966) is an Italian-Greek film and television actress. She is perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for the 1988 Academy Award-winning film Rain Man and the 1988 comedy Big Top Pee-wee, and to international audiences for the Hot Shots! films alongside Charlie Sheen. She has won the David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, and Coppa Volpi awards.Golino was born in Naples, Italy to an Italian father who was a Germanist and scholar and a Greek mother who was a painter; one of her grandmothers was Egyptian-French.